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<section article="gnr" article_name="Natural Resources" number="5-304" title_number="5" title_name="Forests and Parks" subtitle_number="3" subtitle_name="Woodland Incentives and Mel Noland Fellowship Programs">
  <level label="a">
    <text>An applicant for cost–share assistance shall:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>Submit a woodland management plan to the Department;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>File an application with the Department stating:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>The practice to be implemented;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>The approximate cost of the practice to be implemented; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>A description of the land or lands upon which the practice is to be implemented;</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>File a statement of intent stating that the owner:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>Intends to use the cost–share assistance for long–range timber growing and improvement; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>If there is joint tenancy, tenancy in common, or group ownership, has no knowledge of another application that is pending for cost–share assistance to be used on the land described in the application; and</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>Submit other information required by the Department.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>An owner may not receive a total of State and federal cost share assistance in an amount that exceeds 100% of the actual cost of the approved practice.</text>
  </level>
</section>
